Comments on: Failure to Develop: netbook-launcher

By: Paul McD aka Guitaraholic

Paul McD aka Guitaraholic — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:56:29 +0000

Its ideas like this that catch on thou the new aims for EB4 and onward is simplicity and conveince for the end user – your mockup is a classic example of this If you ever get anywere with netbook-launcher give us a bell
FYI – it might be worth looking at the port to efl using the elightenment libs as its still got nice gfx effects and users about 40% less CPU on the machines ive built it from source on! And unlike netbook-launcher it doesnt segfault lol

By: Martin Owens

Martin Owens — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:11:38 +0000

Hey Paul,

I’ll certainly keep you guys in mind if I ever get to develop it further. Although of course as I said the post is more about getting the ideas out of my head on down on paper.

By: Paul McD aka Guitaraholic

Paul McD aka Guitaraholic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:07:16 +0000

Hay man

some AMAZING mockups above here – we are currently about to put EB4 into public beta status and have had NO sucess in getting netbook-launcher working at all . We have the elightenment version only atm as standard launcher gives constant segfaults. It seems ubuntu users ALSO see this error but they are not fixing for gnome 2.28 but ONLY in lucid

We would be very interested in using any patches / varients you do develop by default on our new release contact me on the forums if you would be interested with this

By: commandteaser

commandteaser — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:33:57 +0000

I just got an inspiron mini and my desktop Ubuntu distro dont work on it the the Ubuntu Netbook Remix wont install. What should i try??

Please, if possible, write the answer to this on my blog!
thedeal3500.blogspot.com

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:30:59 +0000

This seems like a documentation rather than a packaging problem. The build dependencies are meant only for rebuilding the package, not for rebuilding from VCS, etc. The dependency on gnome-common and gtk-doc-tools should be listed in a README or INSTALL file along with all the other dependencies.

By: Martin Owens

Martin Owens — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:05:28 +0000

Thanks for the info! much appreciated

I think I will file a bug report.

By: Neil J. Patel

Neil J. Patel — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:00:19 +0000

Sudo apt-get install gnome-common; ./autogen.sh

there is a difference between build deps for a distributed tarball and build-deps for something you clone from bzr. If you use apt-get source, you should just be using ./configure.

Many gnome autotooled projects are like this., so it not always documented (I’ll ad it to the todo list). If you think gnome-common should be installed at build-dep regardless, just file a bug against the package…it has nothing to do with the author (me).

By: Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:23:24 +0000

Looks good to me. I only hope it will have some common ground with Gnome-shell….

Merry X-Mass!